The 12 Old-School UK Death Metal Albums You Have To Hear!

UK death metal at its finest!

As a general rule, the UK’s contribution to death metal gets glossed over in favour of the output of our American cousins (who’s contribution, to be fair, was revolutionary) but to overlook the UK’s considerable input would be foolish….at worst, it’s bloody sacrilege!

So, Worship Metal has cast its eye back to a time when old-school UK death metal was producing sone truly outstanding releases but take note, we’re talking old school here, so strictly early to mid 1990’s only!

In other words, don’t go crying your self to sleep on your blood-stained pillow just because Bolt Thrower‘s 2005 classic Those Once Loyal isn’t included!!

Napalm Death – Harmony Corruption (1990)

Take a trip to Morrisound Recording studios and this is what you get….pure early 90’s death metal genius from a band who’d already revolutionised grindcore with their 2 previous releases!

Napalm Death’s Mentally Murdered EP had already indicated a change was coming but few could have predicted Napalm’s wholesale embrace of death metal. Roping in soon to be scene legends John Tardy (Obituary) and Glen Benton (Deicide) made it pretty clear that death was the order of the day and their contribution to “Unfit Earth” signalled a union between giants of the genre.

In purely death metal terms, the band would never fully capture again such a dense wall of death and while Harmony Corruption could be accused of being a meat ‘n’ potatoes kind of release (especially when compared to the majority of Napalm Death’s back catalogue), that would be missing the point.

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